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The life and character of Stephen Decatur; late Commodore and post-captain in the Navy of the United States, and Navy-Commissioner : interspersed with brief notices of the origin, progress, and achievements of the American Navy

by: Waldo, S. Putnam (Samuel Putnam), 1780-1826

Publication date: 1822

Topics: Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820, Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820, United States. Navy, United States. Navy

Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Clark & Lyman, for O.D. Cooke

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

"With important additions; containing sketches of some distinguished contemporaries of Com. Decatur--a naval register--list of the Navy, &c."--T.p

Bainbridge, Lawrence, Porter, Macdonough, and Decatur engravings

Book, leather; frontispiece, spine chipped, worn at corners, pages spotted (Lincoln copy)

Holograph in ink on old bookplate and flyleaf: Roland W. Diller

Holograph in ink on flyleaf: Alfred J. Creyon

Bookplate: Alfred J. Creyon

Holograph inscription in ink on third prelim. p.: Roland W. Diller presented by A.J. Creyon

Purchased from James T. Hickey, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62706

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